Need help to configure sendmail

[Fraser Campbell]

On Tuesday 28 December 2004 18:44, Frank Peng wrote:

> So I have to find out Sympatico's mail server name or
> IP to put it into my DNS server's MX record,then
> Sympatico forwords all email to my linux box?

For outgoing email you have to configure your local sendmail to relay all 
non-local mail through sympatico.  In sendmail.mc I think you use SMART_HOST 
for that but it's (thankfully) been a long time since I've had to do much 
with sendmail.

For incoming mail there is no really good solution.  Sympatico blocks all 
inbound smtp connections as well.  Try "telnet familywebhouse.com 25" from an 
external connection and you will almost certainly find it blocked.

Since Sympatico forbids running servers and specifically enforces blocking 
smtp so you're really out of luck unless you can arrange to relay in through 
an external mailserver.  I ran my email that way for quite a while, my 
domain's email is hosted at a colo facility and I had my personal email 
relayed to home on port 26 ... eventually I switched to istop who do allow 
you to run servers.

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